Ros Casares Leave A Gap

31.05.2012

TAYLOR MADE

Jeff Taylor has been covering European basketball since 1997, when he first worked on the television program SLAM. He has been a basketball writer and broadcaster since that time, traveling the continent and covering the game in depth for FIBA Europe since its launch in 2003.

It's the understatement of the century to say that in two months, all the air has been let out of the balloon.

The Ros Casares crowd was spoiled for six years, watching week in and week out many of the best players in the world.

In the EuroLeague Women this season, there were many big wins in front of the home crowd at La Fonteta, including a come-from-behind triumph over UMMC Ekaterinburg on 16 November that served as the first real sign that Ros Casares would be the team to beat in Europe this season.

All of the players will find new clubs, but the fans have lost their team.

One of them is a journalist, someone who had been in Istanbul on that great night at the beginning of April when they beat Rivas.

When talking about the club on Wednesday night, his voice cracked as he said: "They gave me six wonderful years of covering them."

Somehow, he manned up and didn't shed a tear.

While the club seems to have had a death knell, at least the senior team, there is one ray of hope for the passionate followers and he goes by the name of Jose Luis Saez, the Spanish Basketball Federation President.

"The demise of Ros is terrible news but I still believe that we should fight for its continuity at every level," Saez said.